Re: AbiWord Fork or Replacement that does not require libgnome*

John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 16:14, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>> John R. Culleton wrote:
>
>> This is not a matter of "insisting on GNOME" and non-libgnomeprint unix
>> printing, was, indeed, "broke." Libgnomeprint is a small and poorly
>> named (as it doesn't require GNOME) library that provides immensive
>> improvements to printing, improving the functionality for the users of
>> AbiWord. Libgnomeprint is so useful, in fact, that it's being
>> considered to be integrated into new releases of GTK+ (I believe). As a
>> slackware user myself, I am aware of the removal of GNOME. A suggestion
>> to include libgnomeprint and the related libraries, I feel, would not be
>> an overwhelming request, because they do not bring in the entire GNOME
>> tree. Furthermore, if you want to use the fully GNOME version of
>> AbiWord, there are several distributions of GNOME for Slackware that
>> will allow you to use the fully-GNOME version or the GTK+-only version
>> equally well.
>>
>> Thanks for using AbiWord!
>
> Well now I am confused. Lots of other programs have printing
> functions, implemented by interfacing with either cups or
> lprng, depending on which package is in use at the particular
> site. I have no idea what you mean about printing being poorly
> implemented on Unix. It always worked for me.

because you don't understand. cups or lprng are transport layers for
printing. You still need to generated something the printer will
understand, ie PostScript. libgnomeprint offers this generation to then
send it to the printer. It is that Postscript code generation that cause
LOT OF PROBLEMS. Now we can:
1/ spend time working on cool feature or important bugfixes
2/ spend time satisfying users that have decided that the Linux desktop
should still stay the way it was 10 years ago.

I pick 1/

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Received on Wed Feb 22 00:04:55 2006